CHC trial:Stakeholders not told of Xtron's intent to fund Sun Ho's music career @TODAYonline ht…

SINGAPORE: If City Harvest Church (CHC) leaders had set up Xtron Productions as a multi-purpose organisation, why were different stakeholders informed only of certain purposes, chief prosecutor Mavis Chionh questioned on Monday (Mar 31), as she went into the third day of cross-examining CHC’s deputy senior pastor Tan Ye Peng. Pointing to responses prepared to pre-empt possible questions by external auditors engaged by the Government to review CHC’s corporate governance, Ms Chionh argued that Tan and fellow church leaders had planned to present Xtron’s vision as a leader in events management and media production. However, the church’s executive members were told a different story: That Xtron was meant to “manage commercial property on behalf of the church”. And yet, Xtron’s third purpose — as testified by co-accused and CHC’s former fund manager Chew Eng Han — was to fund c...